Coaches' records are going into 2014 season, as displayed in NCAA Career Statistics database at ncaa.org.

"Record at school" data for Louisville's Bobby Petrino, Massachusetts' Mark Whipple, Kansas State's Bill Snyder, Oregon State's Mike Riley and Texas State's Dennis Franchione are based on their current tenures at the schools.

Due to the increasing legal and financial complexity of transactions related to buyouts owed by coaches for terminating contracts so they can accept employment elsewhere, USA TODAY Sports is changing the way it reports these amounts in its surveys of college athletics compensation.

Buyout-related payments previously have been included in compensation figures for coaches. Beginning with this report on Bowl Subdivision football head coaches' pay, buyout-related payments will be reported as amounts paid - or loans scheduled to be forgiven -- by the schools and/or their affiliated organizations in addition to the coaches compensation.

Compilation of figures for Staff Pay, the total amount paid to schools' nine full-time assistant coaches, is in progress.